Ruben Östlund has formally began principal images in Budapest on his long-gestated film The Leisure System is Down.
The darkish satire, set on a long-haul flight between England and Australia the place the leisure system fails and passengers are pressured to face the horror of being bored, will shoot within the Hungarian capital over a 70-day interval from January to Could 2025.
The set has been constructed round an actual Boeing 747, which was acquired particularly for the challenge.
As capturing begins, The Leisure System is Down has revealed Connor Swindells, Daniel Webber, Wayne Blair, Dan Wyllie, Lindsay Duncan, Allan Corduner, Sofia Tjelta Sydness, Erin Ainsworth, Myles Kamwendo, Sanna Sundqvist and Tea Stjärne, and Swedish artist Benjamin Ingrosso as a part of its solid.
They be part of beforehand introduced solid Kirsten Dunst, Daniel Brühl, Keanu Reeves, Nicholas Braun, Samantha Morton and Tobias Menzies.
The Leisure System is Down is produced by Plattform Produktion (Sweden) with Important Movies (Germany) and Parisienne de Manufacturing (France). Co-producers are BBC Movie, Movie i Väst, Sveriges Tv, ZDF/ARTE, ARTE France Cinéma, SF Studios, Eye Eye Footage (Norway), Paloma Productions (Denmark).
The movie is financed by the Swedish Movie Institute, Medienboard Berlin-Brandenburg, Filmförderungsanstalt (FFA), the Norwegian Movie Institute, the Danish Movie Institute, with the participation of Canal+, Disney+ and ARTE France and with the assist of Artistic Europe MEDIA.
World gross sales are dealt with by Coproduction Office, and a primary take care of A24 for U.S. distribution rights has already been introduced.
The challenge will mark Östlund’s second English-language movie and seventh function after The Guitar Mongoloid (2004), Involuntary (2008), Play (2011), Power Majeure (2014), and his two Palme d’Or winners, The Sq. (2017) and Triangle of Unhappiness (2022).
